I've noticed a rather annoying feature of the Veer - it can be fairly easy to accidentally open the keyboard when I put it in my pocket - when you do this the phone activates and bypasses the unlock screen - I often hit stuff in my pocket without me knowing it - is there a setting or a preware hack that I can install to change this behavior.

My hopefully temporary solution is to have a simple passcode to unlock the device - hoping there is a better way.

Thanks the problem is I slide the keyboard open when actually putting it in my pocket - perhaps I just need to learn to be more careful - but that keyboard is pretty easy to open up accidentally when holding the phone ...

I think this is one of the most annoying features of the Veer. The keyboard slider sensor is too sensitive. It would have been much better if it would unlock the screen when the keyboard at least halfway open.

My current solution is to use Mode Switcher to set a very simple PIN lock when the silent switch is on. This way, I can set the phone to silent before conveniently slipping it into the coin pocket of my 5-pocket jeans. It's not perfect, especially since Mode Switcher doesn't always trigger reliably on the silent switch when the phone display is off. But it's better than nothing.

Haven't had the phone long enough to have a real problem with answering calls (and I won't, either, now that I have the appropriate phone Tweak installed to disable that). And I don't tend to wear especially tight pants (thank you, MicahDG), but I do need to slip my Veer into a purse, a skirt pocket, or a workout gear pocket every now and then. That's supposed to be one of the selling points, isn't it?

I track my workouts with iGPS, by first turning on NoDoze (iGPS doesn't have a decent background mode) then locking the screen with a button. Took me several failed tracks to realize that what was happening was the phone shifting ever so slightly, turning the screen back on and my **** telling the app to stop tracking. I haven't tried the PIN lockout method yet, but *really*??? This shouldn't be so difficult.

If anyone's still following this, I just installed 2.2.4 on my Veer and now it only wakes up when the slider is fully extended, instead of after it moves a couple of millimeters like it did with 2.1.2. So, if you can live with the quirks of 2.2.4 it does seem to solve the problem.